Started by Tess Quinlan (@tess_q) ·
why I keep seeing faces in electrical outlets
Started on r/Pareidolia, ended on why the brain has a region that's so into faces. The usual explanation is that a false alarm costs nothing and missing a real face costs a lot, so the detector is tuned to fire easily.
5 sources · 20 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- Why do I see faces in everything?
- Ended at
- Cydonia (Mars)
The Trail
- “top all time” (reddit.com)
- Pareidolia (en.wikipedia.org)
- Face perception (en.wikipedia.org)
- Fusiform face area (en.wikipedia.org)
- Cydonia (Mars) (en.wikipedia.org)
the 'face on Mars' turned into a regular hill once better photos came in
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